Wednesday, January 03, 2007

That Wacky George W. Bush Cracks Me Up

OK, I admit it, I don’t give George W. Bush credit for being a funny guy and being able to tell a gut-busting joke at exactly the right moment and I'm now willing to admit that perhaps there's more value to him than meets the eye -- at least, in the comic-relief sense.

Here he was this morning after his first cabinet meeting of 2007 referring to the new Democratic Congress and saying "It's time to set aside politics and focus on the future."

This is the same guy who went around for weeks before having his ass handed to him in the midterm elections saying that these same Congressional Democrats had "no plan" for national security -- even though he knew they did -- and implying at all opportunities that every Democrat from Harry Reid to the guy who sweeps the new Senate Majority Leader's office just loves terrorists and wishes we could invite them all to crash the border and live here.

How funny is this set-aside-politics shtick given that this is the very same president who had his House and Senate henchmen do everything in their power to do absolutely nothing for two years, abandon their Congressional oversight role so he could run wild and squash any Democratic initiative that somehow slipped through to the floor for a vote?

Political writer Bob Geiger is the award-winning author of the Yellow Dog Blog and BobGeiger.com and specializes in coverage of the U.S. Senate. He won the 2005 Weblog Awards prize for Best New Blog and was a finalist in the Koufax Awards in 2005 for his column "I Know This Little Boy in New Orleans."

He is the coauthor of The Real McCain and his work has appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the New York Journal News. A contributing writer to The Huffington Post and Alternet, Bob also makes appearances to comment on Senate activity on many popular radio programs.